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School Policies Face Challenges Over Handling of Gender Identity

Schools across the country routinely inform parents—and often must obtain their written permission—about all sorts of things, from a trip to the zoo to taking a Tylenol.  

A field trip might make Johnny’s day, and a Tylenol might make his headache go away, but they won’t profoundly change the way he understands the world or the entire trajectory of his life.  

If gender activists have their way, however, parents will be shut out of efforts to turn Johnny into Janie.  

According to the database maintained by Parents Defending Education, 1,060 school districts in 38 states and the District of Columbia have formal policies for treating students of any age consistent with their “gender identity” and for withholding that information from parents.  

Those districts include more than 18,000 schools attended by nearly 11 million students—and the list is…

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